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      Settings</font></font></b></td>
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    <td WIDTH="98%"> <p><b>Plan Item</b></p>
      From the 2.1 plan: <em>&quot;Provide user preferences. It should be possible 
      to store user preferences that are not specific to a workspace separate 
      from the workspace, so that they can be used in any workspace. [Platform 
      Core, Platform UI] [Themes: User experience; Rich client platform]&quot; 
      (bug <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=36965">36965</a>)</em> 
      <p> From the 3.0 plan: <em> &quot;The way that Eclipse deals with preferences 
        should be improved. The workbench presentation of preferences generally 
        uses a component-oriented hierarchy, which is not always the best choice 
        for users. The UI should present preferences in such a way that users 
        can readily discover them. Some preference settings have scopes (e.g., 
        workspace-wide vs. per project). The UI should help the user to visualize 
        these scopes. For team-wide uniformity, some preferences settings (e.g., 
        compiler options) need to be shared (or imposed) across teams. The UI 
        should also facilitate this. [Platform Core; Platform UI; Text; JDT UI; 
        JDT Core]&quot; (bug <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=71124">71124</a>) 
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    <td WIDTH="98%"> <p><b>Documents</b></p>
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        <li><i>(obsolete) Reference:</i> The original <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-vcm-home/docs/online/team3.0/settings.html">problem 
          description</a>.</li>
        <li><i>(obsolete) Reference:</i> <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-vcm-home/docs/online/team3.0/settings_solution.html">Proposed 
          solution</a> based on original description.</li>
        <li>Preferences API <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a></li>
        <li><a href="plugin_customization.html">Plug-in 
          Customization</a> Story</li>
        <li>The Preferences <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-ui-home/R3_1/dynamic_teams/dynamic_teams.html">Dynamic 
          Team</a></li>
        <li><a href="pref_apis.html">API Compatibility and Issues</a></li>
        <li><a href="open_issues.html">Issues on the Radar</a></li>
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    <td><p>Files</p>
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        <li><img src="../../images/new.gif" border="0"/>An <a href="example_scope.zip">example 
          plug-in</a> which defines its own preference scope.</li>
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    <td WIDTH="98%"> <p><b>Related Bug Reports</b></p>
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        <li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=36965">Bug 
          36965</a>: [Preferences][Plan Item] Provide user settings</li>
        <li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=42621">Bug 
          42621</a>: Preference Export mechanism needs to be changed</li>
        <li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=43849">Bug 
          43840</a>: New read connection still using extssh</li>
        <li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=47080">Bug 
          47080</a>: Accessing preferences from a Bundle</li>
        <li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=47594">Bug 
          47594</a>: New preference exporting story</li>
        <li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=50804">Bug 
          50804</a>: Preferences are inaccessible without loading the Plugin runtime 
          class</li>
        <li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=51309">Bug 
          51309</a>: [runtime] Preferences.setDefault should not store default-default 
          values</li>
        <li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=52515">Bug 
          52515</a>: JDT Debug does not honour plugin customization settings</li>
        <li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=53456">Bug 
          53456</a>: Multiple Shared Project Settings</li>
        <li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=71124">Bug 
          71124</a>: [plan item] Overhaul Preferences</li>
        <li><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?short_desc_type=anywordssubstr&short_desc=prefs+preferences&product=Platform&component=Resources&component=Runtime&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&changedin=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&namedcmd=5votes&newqueryname=&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=">And 
          a query for those who like to search...</a></li>
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